Many market experts refer to wristwatches as a thing of the past. With the near complete saturation of cell phones in today's youth population, the need for a time telling device attached to one's wrist has become a little obsolete. Ideas for modernizing the wristwatch to a more "hip" and "cool" companion which can be used alongside a cellphone have been in talks for many years, but are only very recently coming to fruition. One might even say that this is the decade of the smart watch (...or maybe that's a little bit of a stretch, but it's still a pretty cool idea). A smart watch may LOOK like your typical portable time-telling device, but it also includes extra nifty features. These might include the Bluetooth, a scroll panel for reading email, or an alert system for messages.
HP has long been a proponent of the smart watch, all the way back to its "wrist instrument" in 1977. But as history can illustrate, the calculator watch was a tool that best served 80s music videos and 6 year old birthday parties rather than actual mathematical functions. However, HP has recently re-imagined their own smart watch, in coordination with popular watchmaker Fossil, to create the MetaWatch. This watch currently has Bluetooth capabilities, but in the long term, developers are looking to turn the MetaWatch into a personal wireless hub, which would serve as a "mobile WiFi hotspot on your wrist." It would also have a built-in alert/update system that could link to Twitter, email and Facebook. Along with Facebook's growing multi-functionality, the watch (which would presumably travel with you most places) could also update your location to Foursquare. Similarly, the squad at Apple finally realized that the newest versions on the iPod Nano are impractically small, which makes them the idea candidates to continue the development of iDomination: the iPod Nano watch. It's as simple as affixing your iPod to a Velcro strap...and then plugging your earbuds into your wrist.
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Many market experts refer to wristwatches as a thing of the past. With the near complete saturation of cell phones in today's youth population, the need for a time telling device attached to one's wrist has become a little obsolete. Ideas for modernizing the wristwatch to a more "hip" and "cool" companion which can be used alongside a cellphone have been in talks for many years, but are only very recently coming to fruition. One might even say that this is the decade of the smart watch (...or maybe that's a little bit of a stretch, but it's still a pretty cool idea). A smart watch may LOOK like your typical portable time-telling device, but it also includes extra nifty features. These might include the Bluetooth, a scroll panel for reading email, or an alert system for messages.
HP has long been a proponent of the smart watch, all the way back to its "wrist instrument" in 1977. But as history can illustrate, the calculator watch was a tool that best served 80s music videos and 6 year old birthday parties rather than actual mathematical functions. However, HP has recently re-imagined their own smart watch, in coordination with popular watchmaker Fossil, to create the MetaWatch. This watch currently has Bluetooth capabilities, but in the long term, developers are looking to turn the MetaWatch into a personal wireless hub, which would serve as a "mobile WiFi hotspot on your wrist." It would also have a built-in alert/update system that could link to Twitter, email and Facebook. Along with Facebook's growing multi-functionality, the watch (which would presumably travel with you most places) could also update your location to Foursquare. Similarly, the squad at Apple finally realized that the newest versions on the iPod Nano are impractically small, which makes them the idea candidates to continue the development of iDomination: the iPod Nano watch. It's as simple as affixing your iPod to a Velcro strap...and then plugging your earbuds into your wrist.
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